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  • Free speech is dying

    Free speech is dying

    How the West is limiting a basic right.

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  • Is Obama a bad debater?

    Is Obama a bad debater?

    His way with words can be a weakness.

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  • Biden 2016?

    Biden 2016?

    Visibility as VP keeps his hopes alive.

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  • Five myths about political polls

    Five myths about political polls

    From media bias to the “debate effect.”

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In the long history of organized sports, no team or individual at the collegiate or professional level has ever lost 500 times in a row. But if one current streak continues, history of the wrong kind will be made midway through the fourth inning at Nationals Park on Aug. 18, when the world will witness perhaps the first competitor in a professional sports arena to lose for the 500th consecutive time.
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